Running for an Hour Can Add Seven Hours to Your Life

The results of a new study might provide you with the motivation you needed to get up and start running now. According to this study, those people who tend to run more usually live three years longer than those who do not. This reportedly applies even if the runners drink, smoke, are fatter or are not even able to run fast.

Running adds years to your life

This latest study reportedly completes a research from about three years ago. According to it, even five minutes of running each day made people live longer. A co-author of the study, Duck-chul Lee, said that this more recent study answered a lot of questions from many people regarding running-provoked longevity. Their findings indeed confirmed the initial study. Cumulative running, at whatever pace and for whatever distance, reduces the person’s death risk with 40 per cent.

It is very interesting that this percentage remained untouched even if that person was smoking, overweight, drank alcohol or even had some health problems. The report also explained that if every person who is not running would have started to do it, we would have had 16 per cent less deaths in the world and 25 per cent less heart attacks. So, it is very important for everyone to stay active. This might prove crucial for your life.

It is time to get up

According to the scientists, about two hours of running per week can increase a person’s life expectancy with 3.2 years. More precisely, if you are running for an hour, you can expect to have as even hours-longer life. Apart from this, Lee said that running also diminishes the risk of other health issues too. For example, high blood pressure, belly fat. Moreover, even if you do not like running, walking and cycling can also help you. Even if the results of the study did not prove so effective, those two exercises can still reduce the risk of death by 12 per cent. Also, the scientists mentioned that those results were the same regardless of the person’s race or material status. So, the only thing you need to do is get up from the couch and get running. You might even live longer.